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🔑 Key Points
🌾 Creeping Death (Soil Erosion in Rajasthan):
→ Soil erosion is a serious problem in Rajasthan, often referred to as "creeping death" due to the loss of soil and its fertility.
→ The upper fertile layer of soil is blown away by wind and carried off by water.
→ This typically occurs during sheet erosion and gully erosion processes.
→ Wind erosion is the major cause of soil degradation in Rajasthan.
→ About 11,419,000 ha of land is affected by wind erosion, followed by water erosion affecting 8,632,000 ha.
→ Chemical degradation affects an estimated 373,000 ha, with 192,000 ha affected by salinity and 181,000 ha by sodicity.